Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

The hacker accessed user data, email addresses, and a 2007 backup database containing hashed passwords managed by the platform. “A hacker broke into a few of Reddit’s systems and managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses and a 2007 database backup containing old salted and hashed passwords.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 1, 2018

Reddit.com today disclosed that a data breach exposed some internal data, as well as email addresses and passwords for some Reddit users. Reddit said the exposed data included internal source code as well as email addresses and obfuscated passwords for all Reddit users who registered accounts on the site prior to May 2007.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It allows an attacker to provide covert, unauthorized access to email correspondence and was used after gaining access to email accounts through CVE-2023-23397 (Microsoft Outlook Vulnerability) or password-spraying.” The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

That story cited a 2007 report (PDF) from iDefense , which detailed DaiLin’s role as the leader of a state-sponsored, four-man hacking team called NCPH (short for Network Crack Program Hacker). ” At the time of story, DaiLin was 28 years old. Security analysts and U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Zynga Inc is an American social game developer running social video game services founded in April 2007, it primarily focuses on mobile and social networking platforms. million unique records containing email addresses, usernames, and passwords (salted SHA-1 hashes), were compromised. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Reddit seems to exclude a security breach of its systems, it pointed out that the root cause of the accounts lockdown is caused by the use of simple passwords on its website and from the reuse of those passwords on multiple services. I’m leaning toward the former.” ” wrote a Reddit user. ” explained the admin.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Zynga Inc is an American social game developer running social video game services founded in April 2007, it primarily focuses on mobile and social networking platforms. Now the Pakistani hacker claims to have stolen more than 218 million records from the popular mobile social game company Zynga Inc. ” reported The Hacker News. .”

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As Mobile Fraud Rises, The Password Persists. As a security analyst at the pioneering security firm Internet Security Systems (ISS) Caleb was happy to prove them wrong and turned what he learned exposing security weaknesses in corporate websites into a thriving business: SPI Dynamics, which was sold to HP in 2007.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

The APT41 group, aka Winnti , Axiom, Barium , Blackfly, HOODOO) is a China-linked cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2007. The attack took place in October 2022, threat actors sent phishing emails that contained links to a password-protected file hosted in Drive.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2019

Earlier this week, a cybercriminal on a Dark Web forum posted an auction notice for access to a Web-based administrative panel for an unidentified “US Search center” that he claimed holds some four million customer records, including names, email addresses, passwords and phone numbers. Jesse Willms’ Linkedin profile.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

Winnti (aka APT41 , Axiom, Barium , Blackfly) is a cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2007. .” The attribution to the China-linked APT group is based on the analysis of the forensic artifacts. Attackers employed a sophisticated modular backdoor called Spyder to decrypt and load additional payloads.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

Launched as a one-man operation in 2007, DataLocker has grown into a leading manufacturer of encrypted external drives, thumb drives, flash drives and self-encrypting, recordable CDs and DVDs. That’s why DataLocker built encryption into the storage device and made it accessible with password authentication.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

These are, of course, on top of the obviously ominous features such as password retrieval and key logging that are normally seen in Remote Access Trojans.”. 2017 analysis of the RAT. This makes it harder for targets to remove it from their systems. According to Rezvesz himself, he is no stranger to the Canadian legal system.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. malware was used by threat actors to establish a backdoor in MSSQL Server 11 and 12 servers, allowing them to access to any account on the server using a “magic password.” The skip-2.0

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

Founded in 2007, Por t nox began selling a software-based NAC solution to be used in local networks. For example, encryption keys, administrator passwords, and other critical information are stored in the Azure Key Vault in FIPS 140-2 Level 2-validated hardware security modules (HSMs).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. “a password-protected RAR archive containing a LNK file.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It’s unknown how the attackers were able to obtain the credentials for that account, but it’s possible the credentials were saved in one of the infected system’s browser password managers.” Next, the attackers logged in to the web interface using a privileged root account. ” reads the report published by the experts.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

OWASP security researchers have updated the organization’s list of the ten most dangerous vulnerabilities – and the list has a new number one threat for the first time since 2007. Insecure authentication process such as flawed account recovery or password reset, or insecure session tokens. No defense against directory traversal.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 10, 2018

Only two days after the honeypot was launched, it was attacked by a black-market seller, who installed backdoors that would allow anyone to access it, even if admin passwords were changed. Instead, Reddit encouraged users to check themselves if their details were affected and then reset their passwords.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Attackers also employed an encrypted Chrome password-stealer hosted on ZINC domain [link]. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. The first stage of the PipeMon backdoor consists of a password-protected RARSFX executable embedded in the.rsrc section of its launcher. A malicious DLL?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2019

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. “One file contains a public SSL certificate and the payload of the file appears to be encoded with a password or key.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

The STRONTIUM APT group (aka APT28 , Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , and Sednit ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. ” continues Microsoft.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. since Q3 of 2007. However, the technological side of cybersecurity is no longer the weakest link in a company’s proverbial chain. Business targets.

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ChiefTech

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Friday, 16 February 2007 Looks like your Teqlo session has expired. Unfortunately, after signing up and a reset of my temporary password (ok, I get it, Teqlo is secure) I quickly got tired of getting no further than a message telling me my session has expired. Please seek advice for specific circumstances.

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IT Governance

MAY 17, 2018

The myPersonality app was created by David Stillwell of Cambridge’s Psychometrics Centre in 2007 and was active until 2012, during which time it collected data from more than 6 million volunteers. New Scientist magazine reports that data relating to millions of Facebook users who used a personality quiz app was exposed online for four years.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 3, 2019

Then, in 2007, Google researchers, Halevy, Norvig and Pereira, published a paper called The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data showing how data could be “unreasonably effective” across many AI domains. No more “username/password” systems, but rather encryption technology and constantly updating audit trails.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 5, 2020

The vulnerability had been published via the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures system on February 21, 2007, but Cathay Pacific did not apply the fix to the server, despite both the vulnerability and the fix being public knowledge for over 10 years.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

Bandook has been active since 2007, it has been continuously developed since then and was employed in several campaigns by different threat actors. This PDF file includes a shortened URL that downloads a password-protected.7z The new variant observed in October spreads via phishing messages using a PDF file.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

One afternoon in 2007, a container loaded with drug ecstasy went missing from a port in Melbourne, Australia. Don't use familiar passwords seriously. If you want nothing to connect back to you choose an entirely new set of passwords. It can become an issue if the police or someone are actively trying to identify you.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2022

These communications on the backend of username and password login processes ensure users get authenticated by the overarching identity manager and authorized to use the given web service(s). led the way, the first two iterations of OIDC, OpenID, were released in 2006 and 2007 as alternative authentication protocols. While SAML 2.0

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Developed by the SANS Institute in 2007, SIFT works on 64-bit OS, automatically updates the software with the latest forensic tools and techniques, and is a memory optimizer. The first version of Volatility was launched at Black Hat and DefCon in 2007 and based its services around academic research into advanced memory analysis and forensics.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

JUNE 17, 2019

Customer passwords used to access profiles were not compromised through the attacks. In nine percent of cases, the customer’s passport number was compromised and in six per cent of cases, the individual’s identity card number. In 430 cases, individual credit card numbers were compromised, although the vast majority of these had expired.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

This penalty was in connection with Facebook harvesting user data, over the course of seven years — between 2007 and 2014. ” Even with sharper teeth attached to the regulatory fining regime, companies still operate as if non-encrypted data, on a non-password protected USB stick, should be considered acceptable.

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